Hi . I've never been told how long an average argonian lives for, and
i would like to know for roleplaying ect. If anyones knows please tell me .

Huh? Even the http://www.uesp.net/ doesn't know? :ahhh:

Yeah hasn't it been written?? :ahhh:

It's just that nobody knows. It's never been mentioned.

Quite obviously they all live forever

Their increased resistance to disease might help a bit, but I don't know enough about veterinary anatomy to say if the cold blooded thing has any effect. I think I read somewhere that their shamans could live for quite some time with certain magics, but I'm not sure if it mentioned the average lifespan. I'll look around a bit to see if I can find that article

Bethesda needs to write some lore about the Argonians. They are the most mysterious of all playable races in TES series. I don't think we have any clue about the average Argonian lifespan.

And the best. They've got something about them, i dunno
what it is but its Sooooo charming and likable .
Oh and i agree, maybe in a few books in Tes V who knows...

They wrote plenty. But I suppose you haven't seen the http://www.imperial-library.info/fsg/brendanarticle1.shtml, it's huge. And that it is without considering Oblivion of the Internal City.
The thing is that Argonians aren't just humans that look like lizards. They're hist and fundamentally different. This seems to make understanding something simple like the average age of an Argonian a difficult task for our Imperial scholars.

They supposedly have entire databases on every race, and in each game the sprinkle a little lore in here and there to make things sparkle.

Perhaps the next books will give us some lore on them.


Perhaps that's MK gets the lore he gives us.

In the real world, many species of fish and lizards have very long lifespans, dwarfing those of humans...the fact the Argonians drink the sap of the hist, which are actually gods, might cause them to live a very long time.

Maybe.

We've never really been told.

Considering the conflict in the game world, perhaps none of them die a natural death from old age, so there's no data to average.

First off I'm no expert. That being said based on the Oblivion game, other games with reptial races and real animals I would give Argonians a life span of 200-250 years. Turtles for example live 200+ years, Crocs 300+ years. So 200-250 years makes sense to me.

Well, I've never seen an Argonian skeleton, so I'm going to have to say that they live forever.

Assuming argonians are closely related to earth's amphibians, they could have a lifespan somewhere between 15 to 100 years. Small amphibians generally live at least 10 or 15 years, while large amphibians like giant turtles can live up to and sometimes over 100 years.

here are some articles on lifespans of Amphibians:

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/reptiles/amphibians/8690.html
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/400-499/nb486.htm
http://www.wonderquest.com/LifeSpan-MaxMin.htm



Turtles very rarely ever live past 150ish and crocodiles live about 70-80 usually, though it has been reported for one to live 115 years. Check the links above.

Also, the oldest animal ever was a 400 year old clam if anyone was wondering.

Turtles aren't amphibians...They're reptiles. Also, argonians are scaled, while amphibians are not, making argonians more of a reptile species.

No one knows how much the Hist influences this and other aspects of their lives. But as really big reptiles they probably go for 100-200 years if they manage to die of old age. But If one is a shaman or mage, who knows? 3000 years?

Probably three months. Most babies are eaten within that time, I'd guess. They're incredibly low on the food chain, until they lick the sap.

What kind of argonian? I'm sure the Oblivion ones are weaker than the ones that are 12 feet tall with poisoned teeth.

Argonians are amphibeans or amphibious whichever is the right term, they can breathe on land and in water.

They probably are killed before they can live out their life span.

It's more accurate to say amphibious, in that they can live in land and water. They are not amphibians though.

They can't. They larvae can breath in water and advlts can breath in air, but they can't do both at the same time, i.e. larvae can't breath air and advlt can't breath in water. But your argument is nonsense anyway, because in the same way I could say that elves are retails because they both breath air.

In game when you go into water argonians can breathe, thus amphibious.

Do argonians have gills or do they breathe through their skins like frogs?

edit - the argonians in game may just be able to hold their breaths for a really long time like a whale or sea turtle or something. I have never heard of one being dissected to show if they are capable of breathing while submerged. If they are not getting oxygen from the water, they are not really amphibious.

There is a difference between an animal being amphibious like a lung fish (which can survive both by breathing air and using gills under water), and an animal being an amphibian like a frog or salamander.

I think they can breath water. They did it in both MW (activated via spell) and OB (innate). I'd guess they'd be almost like a lung fish, in that they have lungs for terrestrial environments, and gills or something similar for water.

And they can't be amphibians. To be an amphibian, they need to constantly moist, no scales, and go through a tadpole-like water phase and a terrestrial advlt phase. Argonians do not need to be moist, they have scales, and do not have two life phases like an amphibian.